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Letters Patent No. 72,334, dated December 17, 18.67.

IMPROVEMENT IN HARROWS.

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TO ALL WIIOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, NICHOLAS STARR, Jr., of Homer, in the county of Cortland, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Harrows; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the saine, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of this specification, in which- Figure I is a perspective view, and

Figure 2 is a View of a part of the herren'.

The harroiv is made square, or nearly so, the four sides containing the teeth. The sides are made of single pieces of timber of any size desired, and hinged in pairs, as in iig.. 2, the pieces a a, in Iig. l, forming one pair, and the pieces b 6 another. Upon the'ends of'each pair of side pieces are placed bent iron straps, nu, with holes for bolts at their outer ends. c is a coupling-rod, for coupling the two pairs together, having a stationary bolt, z', at one end, and a movable holt, o o, at the other; the bent end of the latter bolt coming through and workingin the slot s of the coupling-rod. The draught may be from either corner of the drag, but it will be found to Wort: the best to be drawn from one of the hinged corners. I thus form a flexible'drag or hart-ow, which, I claim, accommodates itself more perfectly to the inequalities of the ground than-any of those divided at right angles to the sides, and it is readily coupled together or taken vapart in the field, and, what is also very desirable, it may be oompactly folded for storage or transportation.

What I ciaim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Constructing a barrow of four sides, in two sections or divisions, and each division composed of two sides hinged together, and said divisions connected at the diagonal corners to form a single square barrow. Y

'-2. I claim the connecting or coupling-rod c, with its bolts at either end, to connect such divisions together and keep the sides expanded.

NICHOLAS STARR, JRA

Witnesses:

S. R. HUNTER, J. H. PALMER. 

